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- Comment on Palantir declares itself the guardian of Americans' rights 2 days ago:
And I declare Palantir execs and shareholders the defenders of sucking on their own chodes.
That’s the nice thing about free speech, you can say whatever you want, to whomever you want. Ironic that Palantir is helping the federal government undermine it.
- Comment on The rich oppose clean energy because it is renewable. If clean energy became non renewable, or fossil fuels became renewable, they would no longer oppose a transition to clean energy technology 3 days ago:
All fair points, though I would argue that the main reason we transport oild sint because it’s cheap, it’s because we kind of have to. You can generate electricity pretty much anywhere, oil has to come from specific holes in the ground.
But yea, I don’t think we transport oil just because it’s cheap, it’s also nessisary, at least to an extent, as long as we depend on it. Gas stations, tanker trucks, oil pipelines, ect were all originally built because we needed those things in order to make the things that use them go, including most of the things that bring the finished oil products to us.
And yes, it would be costly and impractical to move uncharged batteries back to where they are charged.
If anything, I think this comversation highlights the absurdity of modern oil infrastructure when compared to electric.
With electricity you can build machines that sustainably harvest it, keep the power generation away from the things it’s used for, and transmit it efficiency at a low cost(albeit not overseas). While on the other hand, oil must be mined in a specific location, transported, refined, transported again, and burned at the appliance, never to be used again. I know I’m preaching to the chior here but I really think the only thing holding renewable electric power back is politics, like oil subsidies and the like.
- Comment on The rich oppose clean energy because it is renewable. If clean energy became non renewable, or fossil fuels became renewable, they would no longer oppose a transition to clean energy technology 3 days ago:
Well yes I agree running power cables between continents is generally unviable(I was thinking more along a neighboring country/state scale). For your example, it would make the most sense to just build seperate infrastructure and have both countries be energy independent imo.
Allow me to address the battery concerns though. There are batteries that do not require rare earth minerals, and even if you do use ones that require them, once they’ve been used past their lifespan(which is still 1000s of times more uses than gas, which is single use), those rare earth minerals don’t just vaporise and go away(like gas), they can be recycled into newer batteries, and for a fraction of the overall effort of mining new rare earth minerals.
In any case, my original point is that you can in fact “bottle” and transport renewable energy, even across continents, even if it makes no sense to do so.
And honestly, If every country had enough oil reserves, it probably wouldn’t make much sense for oil either
- Comment on The rich oppose clean energy because it is renewable. If clean energy became non renewable, or fossil fuels became renewable, they would no longer oppose a transition to clean energy technology 3 days ago:
Yes you can, using batteries, but in most cases it makes more sense to just run cables between the power grids and transmit power that way, since you expend hardly any energy just transporting it.
- Comment on xkcd #3201: Proof Without Content 1 week ago:
A white square still counts as content.
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- Comment on Self-hosting in 2025 isn't about privacy anymore - it's about building resistance infrastructure 3 weeks ago:
I’m forwarding this to as many people as I can.
- Comment on Hurry pls it's urgent 4 weeks ago:
Because of the guilt, or because of the nuclear war?
- Comment on YSK to get a passport in the US, you need to have access to information about your parents and most recent ex-spouse 5 weeks ago:
Wish I didn’t have to, but unfortunately I was born here :/
- Comment on Snitches get switches 5 weeks ago:
It doesn’t matter whether its illegal if the authorities are stupid enough.
- Comment on Star Citizen is on course to reach $1 billion in player funding in 2026, and we still might not get to play its singleplayer campaign next year 5 weeks ago:
It’s still $45 to access the game if you don’t have it yet(and that counts as a pledge, and therefore part of the game’s funding), but yea as a player and a backer I essentially agree. You’re basically spending money to skip game progression after the final wipe before release(whenever that happens).
IMO it takes some of the enjoyment out of the game even in its current buggy alpha form. You can earn basically everything except for the most recently(ish) released ships(and some cosmetic items) entirely within the game.
You do get a game to play for $45 though. A game with a zillion bugs and issues but a game nonetheless. I personally feel like it was worth $45 for the entertainment value I’ve gotten out of it. Not worth the amount I spent(like a decade ago), but the first $45 feels worth it now.
That being said, don’t buy the game if you expect a polished experience.
- Comment on Typical monopoly people 1 month ago:
Not always, the word skosh(meaning just a little bit or a tiny amount) comes from the Japanese word sukoshi(少し), but that can probably be attributed to the language not generally using romanized letters.
It’s a very interesting word to me since its one of the very few words that migrated from Japanese to English and isn’t a name of something. The way it came over is also rather interesting, as it was through collaboration between us and Japanese soldiers during the Korean war.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Its the 1% here that scares me.
- Comment on 2³² will get interesting... 2 months ago:
I would, because the second track potentially scales to infinity, and pulling the lever is the only sure way to minimize the death and suffering.
Also, if everyone avoids pulling the lever, you technically have an infinite amount of people who will die and an infinite amount of guilty consciences, also an infinite amount of people blaming the last guy for forcing the decision on them, like the most messed up version of the infinity hotel.
- Comment on Space is beautiful 3 months ago:
If you did this quickly with a warp drive or whatever, you would still need at least ten years to see the results, so you could only see as far back as when you put the mirror up at the most.
- Comment on You're so predictable 3 months ago:
Jokes on you, I was too lazy to go back and look.
- Comment on Cloudflare Tunnel? 3 months ago:
Pangolin is great, I can expose things like game servers on it and have my entry point in a geographically close data center to keep the ping time lower than other options would let me.
I’m currently trying out the managed self hosted version, it seems a bit slower, but you also get ha with it which is pretty cool.
- Comment on FFS Plex, the server is on my local network 4 months ago:
So glad I installed jellyfin years ago and never bothered to set up Plex.
- Comment on BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said America could dodge a ‘retirement crisis’ by encouraging people to work longer 4 months ago:
They certainly get paid like they do
- Comment on How many hands long do they get? 4 months ago:
I’m just an American but I feel this is probably offensive to French people.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Yea, basically we Americans are too stupid to understand the complexity of different political systems, so most of us boil it down to Left/Liberal/Democrat/socialist/communist/ect and Right/Conservative/Republican/fascist/Libertarian/nazi/ect with everything I just mentioned supposedly existing on opposing sides of one imaginary line somehow.
Also, the Republicans and Democrats are the only two political parties that have (or for the time being, can have) power in the us, because of the two party system, which makes the problem worse.
- Comment on Time to bash Americans again 4 months ago:
Here here. If Europe goes to trash I won’t even be able to VPN my way out of fascist bullshit.
- Comment on It's efficient. 5 months ago:
Yea ok that’s enough Lemmy for me today.
- Comment on Be nice 6 months ago:
Hell yes infinite beans!
- Comment on No LUFS regulations are the reason you use subtitles to watch TV – Tom Scott YT (7:58) 6 months ago:
I don’t really have an alternative, just trying to give my perspective on the issue.
- Comment on No LUFS regulations are the reason you use subtitles to watch TV – Tom Scott YT (7:58) 6 months ago:
Career Audio engineer chiming in here. I would say it’s a combination of the lack of LUFS regulation and improper mixes. IMHO dialogue clarity should be prioritized more than it currently is, or at the very least we should use the center channel in surround sound formats exclusively for dialog to make it easier to adjust(via software and/or or av receivers).
- Comment on [VIDEO] Japan Sanctions Visa after the Censorship of Anime and Manga 6 months ago:
Kick their ass Japan! Don’t go easy on them, make them stop their bullshit INTERNATIONALLY if they want their sanctions removed!
- Comment on KDE Plasma Bigscreen (Android TV alternative) is back from dead 6 months ago:
Couldn’t you get around this by making the “apps” in bigscreen be browser shortcuts to their respective streaming website?
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 6 months ago:
Probably a security update to try and keep it from being part of a botnet maybe? What would work better though is never connecting it to a network or even better, just don’t make it smart for no dam reason, lol.
- Comment on ha! 7 months ago:
Shat
